Around June 16, 1896

In this day and age, newspapers rarely print fiction. Of course, there is the occasional magical story written by a third grade class that appears every once a week in the Arts and Entertainment section of the paper, but for the most part, fictional stories of real substance are not published in newspapers anymore. This was not the case in the 1800's. Appearing in The Valley Star each week was...

The Republican Party adopted their platform. In it, they aimed for protecting the gold standard, advancing American interests at home and abroad, reaffirming the Monroe Doctrine, and giving sympathy to Cuba among other things. The Republican Party named William McKinley its presidential candidate . In this platform the Republicans have a provision claiming their unqualified condemnation'...

Violence was very prevalent amongst people of the Post- Bellum era. A young woman named Sarah Hunn, better known as Fascinating Sarah Bunn, was the most expert thief and all round female crook in the city. While in her room she shot her lover, a black man named Alex Howard, with a fatal wound to the stomach. He died later that night in the City Hospital. She claimed that it was performed out of...

Three years prior to the release of A Red Record, Ida B.Wells was forced out of her home in Memphis, Tennessee and into Northern exile by her campaign against lynching. The white Northern press excluded most African American writers, so Wells was forced to create new arguments and tactics. In an effort to attract attention to the plight of blacks, Wells attacked white fears of declining manliness...

In 1895 Mr. Thomas Brown paid his taxes to S.B. Hardwick, who was the treasurer of Westmoreland County, Virginia at that time. During that time, everyone had to pay one dollar to the state and fifty cents to the county per head. Taxes were based on every one hundred dollars worth of property. For example, it was thirty cents for state tax, ten cents for state school tax, and fifteen cents for road...

Who better than the biggest name in printing today to lead the expedition into map printing than Rand McNally? Starting in railroad guides, the company eventually worked its way into maps in 1872, using a new wax engraving method that allowed it to print maps at a greatly reduced cost. This ensured the company’s ability to expand its publishing productions into maps and geography textbooks; in...

In 1895, while still serving his last term as Detroit’s mayor, Hazen S. Pingree wrote an autobiography entitled Facts and Opinions: Or, Dangers That Beset Us. Far from laying out some nostalgic, narrative arc from his boyhood in rural Maine to his career as the populist mayor of a burgeoning industrial city, Pingree writes almost exclusively of his time as a mayor and conveys the gravitas...

The South had not lost its Confederate culture following the end of the Civil War.Those criminalized by the North were made immortal by southerners in the form of monuments.Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne and all six of his family and friends attended the festivities surrounding the laying the cornerstone of the monument for former Confederate President Jefferson Davis on July 2, 1896.The event included...

Mob violence was prevalent in the Southern United States towards the turn of the twentieth Century. Noah B. Jones, who had been thought to be a victim of a mob attack in turn was identified as an actually lyncher, stifled by a defensive blow from a Mr. Maxwell. Jones and his party had come to Maxwell's house to terrorize him, and in turn was struck down by Maxwell with an ax in self defense....

Since the ambitious Loring A. Chase crafted his initial vision of Winter Park, he predicted that its success would derive from the tourism industry. As the Seminole Hotel was an enormous stride in the structural economic development of tourism, the whole town dynamic centered around the hotel. For instance, Hannibal Square was created to serve as a residential area for the employees of the Seminole,...